Abdullah b. 'Umar said that Sa'd b. Ubada complained of illness. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) came to visit him accompanied by 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf, Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas and 'Abdullah b. Mas'ud. As he entered (his room) he found him in a swoon. Upon this he said: Has he died? They said: Messenger of Allah, it is not so. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) wept. When the people saw Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) weeping, they also began to weep. He said. Listen, Allah does not punish for the tears that the eye sheds or the grief the heart feels, but He punishes for this (pointing to his tongue), or He may show mercy.
Read More..Abdullah b. 'Umar reported: While we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), a person, one of the Ansar, came to him and greeted him. The Ansari then turned back. Upon this the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: o brother of Ansar, how is my brother Sa'd be 'Ubada? He said: He is better. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Who amongst you would visit him? He (the Holy Prophet) stood up and we also got up along with him, and we were more than ten persons. We had neither shoes with us, nor socks, nor caps, nor shirts. We walked on the barren land till we came to him. The people around him kept away till the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and his Companions with him came near him (Sa'd b. 'Ubada).
Read More..Anas b. Malik reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Endurance is to be shown at the first blow.
Read More..Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) came to a woman who had been weeping for her (dead) child, and said to her: Fear Allah and show endurance. She (not recognising him) said: You have not been afflicted as I have been. When he (the Holy Prophet) had departed, it was said to her that he was the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), she was mortally shocked. She came to his door and she did not find doorkeepers at his door. She said: Messenger of Allah. I did not recognise you. He said: Endurance is to be shown at first blow, or at the first blow.
Read More..A hadith like this is narrated with the same chain of transmitters but with the addition of these words: The Apostle of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) happened to pass by a woman (who was sitting) by the side of a grave.
Read More..Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that Hafsa wept for 'Umar (when he was about to die). He ('Umar) said: Be quiet, my daughter. Don't you know that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had said: The deceased is punished because of his family's weeping over the death ?
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